Weegy: Wade-Davis treated Southerners as traitors who deserved to be punished. It also required Southern states to write a new state constitution banning slavery before they get back into union. [ Lincoln maintained that no state had a right to secede, that claims of secession were null and void that these states were still in the union. Further, Congress did not have the constitutional power to force a state change its state constitution.
] User: Why did Lincoln's pocket veto of the Wade-Davis bill outrage fellow Republicans? They believed it betrayed the party.
They wanted their own way in the matter.
It appeared he was siding with Democrats.
He went against promises he had made. Weegy: He went against promises he had made. (More)